Quotes

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

A sick person is a prisoner.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.